The Richmond Olympic Oval, a facility in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, was the venue of the long track speed skating events of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, and was the location for the official Olympic anti-doping lab. The total cost of the project was $178 million. The Oval is an international centre of excellence for …
After nearly 10 years of dormancy, the 27-year-old outdoor ice rink at Robson Square was reopened, with a slightly larger ice area, and rechristened the GE Ice Plaza. Taken on a very cloudy and rainy morning with no lighting.
Many people have asked me if I had a GigaPan of the Vancouver skyline with the Olympic Rings. Yes, I shot one but was not satisfied with the results and didn’t publish it until now. As a whole, the view is great, but the details are blurred because of poor shooting conditions – very dark …
Many people asked me if I had an image of the Vancouver skyline with the Olympic Rings. Yes, I shot one but was not satisfied with the results and didn’t publish it until now. As a whole, the view is great, but details were not good because of poor shooting conditions.
Robson Square is a landmark civic centre and public plaza of modernist concrete, located in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the site of the Provincial Law Courts, UBC Robson Square, government office buildings, and public space connecting the newer development to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Robson Square is the only public outdoor skating rink …
The Main Media Centre (MMC) for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games was located within the Canada Place complex and the Vancouver Convention Centre on the city’s downtown waterfront. Canada Place housed the Main Press Centre, while the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) was located in the Vancouver Convention Centre (West Building). View from Stanley Park …
Built on the last remaining large tract of undeveloped waterfront land near downtown Vancouver, Southeast False Creek was the site of the Vancouver Olympic Village during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. After the 2010 Winter Games, Southeast False Creek became home to 16,000 people. It has 250 affordable housing units in its first …
The Cambie Street Bridge is a six-lane bi-symmetric precast varying depth post tension box girder bridge spanning False Creek in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Cambie bridge is the easternmost of False Creek’s fixed crossings; the Burrard and Granville bridges are a little more than a kilometer to the west, and the new Canada Line SkyTrain …